Our Offerings - Arango Specialty Coffee

202 | ARANGO DECAF E.A.

Producer La Miranda Community	Description Chocolate, caramel, brown sugar
Process Washed	Varietals Castillo, Colombia
Region Antioquia	Elevation 5,900 to 6,500 feet above sea level
Position Spot	Warehouse Continental, New Jersey

La Miranda is a small community located in Ituango, Antioquia, Colombia. The region is rich in fertile soils and beautiful landscapes that produce excellent coffee. However, the beauty and the remoteness of the region comes with its own challenges. For the last 40 years, this region has struggled with violence. Massacres, displacements, and extortions have made coffee farming very difficult. We have a lot of respect for people that persist and still grow coffee in these conditions. It’s also amazing to us that farmers can produce the quality of coffees that we are getting under these difficult conditions.
The lots that we selected for the decaffeination process are solid 86+ coffees. We cupped the coffees again after the E.A. decaffeination process and we were very please with the results.
We understand that when people ask for decaf coffee they do it because the flavor not the caffeine. We shouldn’t neglect decaf coffee anymore and we should treat it with respect for people that produce it as well as people that drink it. That is our goal with our decaf program.

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243 | Retoños

Spot Continental NJ

Producer Alba Zuleta	Description Chocolate, brown sugar, dry fruit
Process Washed	Varietals Castillo, Colombia
Region Antioquia	Elevation 5,900 feet above sea level
Position Spot	Warehouse Continental, New Jersey

Alba has dedicated her entire life to coffee. She began working at a young age on her parents’ farm, learning the craft from the ground up. After marrying, she and her husband established their own farm, building it through perseverance and hard work. Through coffee, Alba was able to support her four children and provide them with educational opportunities—an accomplishment she holds close to her heart.

Today, Alba cultivates approximately 5,000 coffee trees at her farm, Retoños, planted with Castillo and Colombia varietals.
Farming in Alba’s region is far from easy. Its remote location presents significant logistical challenges, making production costs considerably higher. The area has also endured years of armed conflict, adding further hardship. Alba has been displaced from her farm multiple times. Yet despite these challenges, her commitment to coffee remains unwavering—a testament to her resilience, strength, and deep connection to the land.

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07 | El Naranjo

Spot Continental NJ

Producer Evelio Bados	Description Sweet, chocolate, stone fruit, sugar cane
Process Washed	Varietals Castillo, Colombia
Region Nariño	Elevation 6,250 feet above sea level
Position ETA October, 2026	Warehouse Continental, New Jersey

El Naranjo began over 38 years ago as just a vision. Evelio invested in an untouched lot and worked very hard to clear the land and eventually plant coffee. He was working double duty during this time as he was also employed at other farms in order to provide for his family. After watching his dream come to fruition, Evelio hopes that his children will continue his legacy and produce coffee at El Naranjo in the future. For this reason, he continues to look for opportunities that will allow for sustainability and improved quality of life. It is important to him that his children and El Naranjo are successful for generations to come.

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163 | Las Palomas – Chiroso

Spot Continental NJ

Producer Wilfran Trujillo	Description Plum, floral, lavanda, honey
Process Washed	Varietals Chiroso
Region Antioquia	Elevation 6,562 feet above sea level
Position Spot CTI New Jersey	Warehouse Continental, New Jersey

Wilfran grew up around coffee, learning alongside his father and grandfather. In 2013, he moved to Las Palomas and began planting coffee trees in partnership with his father. They are very proud of what they have built together. The farm currently has around 1,500 Chiroso trees producing cherries and another 1,500 that are a year old. Wilfran intends to expand the farm with the addition of 5,000 trees this year.
As the farm grew, so did Wilfran’s family. With his wife and daughter at the farm, life at Las Palomas has come full circle with Wilfran’s daughter learning about coffee alongside her father and grandfather.
Outside of life at Las Palomas, Wilfran enjoys playing music. He is a member of a local band and they love performing.

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33 | El Mango

Spot Continental NJ

Producer Gilberto Giraldo	Description Molasses, brown sugar, chocolate
Process Washed	Varietals Colombia, Castillo
Region Antioquia	Elevation 5,900 feet above sea level
Position Spot CTI New Jersey	Warehouse Continental, New Jersey

Like other farms in the area, Gilberto and El Mango have experienced a couple of challenging years. Dramatic climate changes in the last few years have diminished the production yield considerably. On top of that, the resurgence of activity among armed illegal groups in the region led to multiple displacements from the farm, including once during the harvest last year.

While these obstacles proved difficult to overcome, Gilberto took them in stride and is still planning for the upcoming years. He has new varietals like Chirosos and Pink Bourbon, that are mature now and is excited to experiment with different processing methods. His unwavering commitment to El Mango is evident and we are equally committed to riding out the ups and downs with him.

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121 | Santa Marta Community Lot

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Producer Various	Description Chocolate, maple syrup, honey
Process Washed	Varietals Castillo, F4
Region Nariño	Elevation 5,900 to 6,500 feet above sea level
Position ETA October, 2026	Warehouse Continental, New Jersey

Santa Marta is a small coffee farming community located in the Nariño department in the south of Colombia. The average output of every farm per year is about 10 bags of green coffee. Our Community lot is comprised of lots from around 25 small farms located between 1,900 and 2,100 meters above sea level.

After cupping these coffees, we saw an opportunity to work with the community. The coffees showed great complexity and sweetness as well as consistency from farm to farm. We believe that the proximity of these small farms plays a big role in their consistency and uniformity.

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02 | El Porvenir

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Producer Lucido Diaz	Description Sweet, floral, molasses, butter
Process Washed	Varietals Pink bourbon
Region Nariño	Elevation 5,750 feet above sea level
Position ETA October, 2026	Warehouse Continental, New Jersey

Lucido grew up in Putumayo, a state in the south of Colombia. He has always worked as a farmer and started growing coffee once he settled in La Union, Nariño, Colombia. He considers this a lifetime commitment and prides himself in his work.
We have been working with Lucido for 6 years now. When we started buying coffee from him in 2018, he had Castillo and Colombia varietals. In 2019, Lucido decided to completely replant his farm with 3,000 trees of the varietal Pink Bourbon. This risky undertaking left him without any coffee production for three years while the new trees grew. In 2022, we had the first harvest of his new varietal and it was worth the wait. Not only did the coffee taste great, but Lucido said that pink bourbon is holding better than the previous varietals regarding climate change and new disease that are affecting the coffee trees.

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17 | La Esmeralda

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Producer Arquímedes España	Description Sugar cane, chocolate, cherry
Process Washed, sun-dried	Varietals Colombia, castillo
Region Nariño	Elevation 5,906 meters
Position ETA October, 2026	Warehouse Continental, New Jersey

At just two and a half hectares, La Esmeralda is a small farm. Nevertheless, it is home to Arquímedes, his wife, Tatiana, and their young daughter. They are proud of the effort invested to transform this property into both their business and home.

Arquímedes is aware that every detail matters when producing coffee and is continuously planning upgrades for La Esmeralda, starting with the addition of more drying beds. His goals are to increase efficiency and further improve quality. He participated in the Cup of Excellence competition in the past and hopes to return again.

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16 | El Plan

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Producer Patricia Benitez	Description Sweet, caramel, maple syrup, bakers chocolate
Process Washed, sun-dried	Varietals Castillo, F4
Region Nariño	Elevation 5,750 feet above sea level
Position ETA October, 2026	Warehouse Continental Terminals, New Jersey

Coffee has always been a way of life for Patricia. Growing up on her father’s farm, she helped with the day to day activities with her siblings. After he passed away, Patricia inherited a portion of her farm where she started El Plan Eighteen years ago.
As of 2023 Patricia and her husband Alex have 9,000 trees of coffee planted at El Plan of the varietal Castillo F4.

Coming full circle, she and her husband Alex now provide for her family with coffee production. However, Patricia, like many other Colombian coffee farmers, faces new challenges that are shrinking profits; climate change and the ever increasing costs of production are the main contributors to the declining margins. As we enter our fourth year working with Patricia, and been able to pay above market price for her coffee, we witnessed the importance that coffee has played in the oportunitites for the family. Patricia and Alex have been able to pay for the education of their son in a private university with the proceeds of coffee. Something that was unthinkable of a generation ago. We are humble and proud of working with farmer’s like Patricia an hope to impact many other farmers life giving them the opportunity of having a sustainable business model.

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06 | El Placer

Spot Continental NJ

Producer Ruberto Martinez	Description Honey, pastry, bakers chocolate, cherry
Process Washed, sun-dried	Varietals Castillo F4 and F11
Region Nariño	Elevation 5,900 feet above sea level
Position Spot CTI New Jersey	Warehouse Continental Terminals, New Jersey

As one of ten children, Ruberto was raised growing coffee alongside his siblings. He considers coffee farming a way of life, not just a job, so it comes as no surprise that he is now continuing the tradition.

El Placer is planted with 8,000 trees of the Castillo F4 and Castillo F11 varietals. Above average rainfall in both the 2021 and 2022 growing seasons has led to a considerable decrease in yields per tree. Ruberto laments that while the coffee trees flower, the excessive rain causes the flowers to fall off the tree before the nodes can develop into fruit. This leaves him, and other local farmers, with less coffee to sell.

He believes that relationships are the key to making the coffee industry sustainable. Through his commitment to investing the time and effort needed to produce consistent coffee, he aims to overcome the production variables. Ruberto hopes his quality focus will help El Placer prosper and encourage generations to come to continue the family farming tradition.

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